Quotation Association

[Tripe]

There's an old saying in Tennessee - I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee...that says, fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me...you can't get fooled again.
- George W. Bush

[Thom_Serveaux]

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving."

-Dale Carnegie

[Tripe]

Enacted in 1966, the Freedom of Information Act — or FOIA — gives any citizen the right to request access to federal agency records or information. It's what I used when I took on the IRS for disallowing my status as a tax-exempt church.

- Dale Gribble

[therul]

The Omnian Church encouraged [hermits], on the basis that it was best to get madmen as far away as possible where they couldn't cause any trouble and could be cared for by the community, insofar as the community consisted of lions and buzzards and dirt.
Small Gods - Terry Prattchett

[Thom_Serveaux]

"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."

George Carlin

[Johnny Unusual]

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example.

Mark Twain

[therul]

When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
- Benjamin Franklin, in a letter to Richard Price. October 9, 1790.

[Plastic Self-Cleaning Duck]

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is. "  - Benjamin Franklin

[Johnny Unusual]

"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
- Aristotle

[kodiakthejuggler]

"Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Plato? Aristotle? Socrates? ...morons."

~ Vizzini
The Princess Bride

[Tripe]

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates

[Johnny Unusual]

"Take my wife—please!"
- Henny Youngman

[stansimpson]

"To please a wife when her occasions call,
Would busy the most vigorous of us all.
And trust me, sir, the chastest you can choose
Will ask observance, and exact her dues." 

-Alexander Pope

[Johnny Unusual]

"With my wife, I've got no sex life. The dog keeps watching me in the bedroom so he can learn how to sit up and beg. I told him to watch my wife so he can learn how to roll over and play dead."

- Rodney Dangerfield

[Thom_Serveaux]

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99 cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money.

    -Joe Weinstein